According to a report issued by Fund for Peace, Yemen is in the midst of a violent storm caused by the disappearance of the oil and gas reserves and the large flow of Somali refugees with connections to Al-Qaeda as well as the flow of extremists from Saudi Arabia.
The report said that "the refugees and the extremists are the most significant imports by Yemen in 2008."
The Saudi extremists believe that Yemeni president Ali Saleh is too weak to prevent them from getting organized.
These developments have led the Fund for Peace to conclude that Yemen is the next Afghanistan.
Source: Al-Sabah al-Jadid, Iraq, July 26, 2009
